Julia Roberts Trivia
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50 free Julia Roberts trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill when Julia Roberts was born, in thanks for her parents running Atlanta's only integrated theatre troupe. Two decades later Roberts was the waitress in Mystic Pizza, the bride in Steel Magnolias and the woman in the red dress in Pretty Woman, a part she took for $300,000 after half of Hollywood turned it down. By 2000 she was the first actress paid $20 million for a film, and Erin Brockovich won her the Oscar. This quiz runs through the whole career: the early TV work, the romantic comedies that made her 'America's sweetheart', the thrillers with Denzel Washington and Mel Gibson, the Ocean's films, the record fees, the Broadway debut the critics hated, the HBO and streaming roles, Red Om Films, the Lancôme deal, the marriage to Lyle Lovett, the conversion to Hinduism and the barefoot habit that made it into Hook. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a movie night.
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Q 01Roberts was born in 1967 in which city's metropolitan area?
Atlanta
Atlanta is where her parents founded a racially integrated theatre workshop in the 1960s, and after it closed and they divorced her mother moved the girls out to the suburbs.
Q 02Who paid the Roberts family's hospital bill when Julia was born?
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King and her husband Martin Luther King Jr. settled the bill the Robertses could not afford, a thank-you for taking the King children into their acting school when others would not.
Q 03Roberts grew up in which Georgia town, the old Greek name for Izmir?
Smyrna
Smyrna is where her mother settled with Julia and her sister after the divorce, while her father and brother stayed in the city, and she graduated from Campbell High there.
Q 04What did Roberts want to be when she was a child?
A veterinarian
A veterinarian was her childhood ambition, but as a teenager she watched her brother Eric make it as an actor and followed him to New York straight after high school.
Q 05Which Pretty Woman moment was a prank on Roberts that made her laugh for real?
The jewellery box snapping shut
The jewellery box snapping shut on her fingers was a joke meant for the gag reel and played without telling her, and the laugh it surprised out of her was too good to cut.
Q 06In Notting Hill, Roberts's film star falls for a man who runs what kind of London shop?
A travel bookshop
A travel bookshop is where she wanders in to buy a book, but the two only get talking when he bumps into her in the street and spills orange juice all over her.
Q 07In Satisfaction (1988), her first credited film part, Roberts played what?
A bass guitarist
A bass guitarist in an all-girl rock band was the part, but it was not quite her first film, because she had already slipped by in a nonspeaking role in Firehouse the year before.
Q 08In Mystic Pizza's Connecticut fishing town, Roberts's waitress belongs to which community?
Portuguese-American
Portuguese-American families are the year-round locals of the film's Mystic, and Roger Ebert guessed it would one day be known for the stars it showcased before they were stars.
Q 09In Steel Magnolias, Roberts's young bride suffers from which condition?
Diabetes
Diabetes was no plot device, because Robert Harling wrote the story after complications of the disease killed his sister Susan in 1985, and he turned her into Shelby.
Q 10Pretty Woman began as a dark drama called 3,000, which ended with Vivian and her friend on a bus to where?
Disneyland
Disneyland was the bleak last stop of a script with no happy ending, until Disney's own studio reworked it into the fairy tale that reached the screen.
Q 11Accepting her Oscar in 2001, Roberts refused to hurry because she already owned which prize, offered for the night's shortest speech?
A television
A television went to the shortest speech, so she said she had one, then told the conductor he was too quick with that stick and should sit down, because she might never be there again.
Q 12Who directed Roberts in both Flatliners (1990) and Dying Young (1991)?
Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher's Flatliners cast her beside Kiefer Sutherland, who became her fiancé, and their wedding was called off in 1991, the year she made Dying Young for the same director.
Q 13How does Roberts's wife escape her husband in Sleeping with the Enemy?
A faked drowning
Q 21Mistaken for a journalist at Roberts's Notting Hill press junket, Hugh Grant's character claims to write for which magazine?
Horse & Hound
Horse & Hound is the magazine he names when he is taken for a reporter, and the bluff leaves him stumbling through interviews with the star and the rest of her cast.
Q 22Runaway Bride (1999) reunited Roberts with Richard Gere and which director?
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall had directed the pair in Pretty Woman nine years earlier, and this time Gere is a newspaper columnist writing about a woman who keeps bolting from the altar.
Q 23Roberts's Emmy-nominated Law & Order guest spot paired her with which actor, then her boyfriend?
Benjamin Bratt
A faked drowning frees her for a new life in Iowa, though Roger Ebert grumbled that the husband finds her so easily she might as well have mailed him a change-of-address card.
Q 14Which character did Roberts play in Steven Spielberg's Hook?
Tinker Bell
Tinker Bell has to fly a grown-up Peter back to Neverland because he cannot remember ever being Pan, and Roger Ebert thought Roberts played the fairy more as a duty than a pleasure.
Q 15During her early-1990s hiatus, Roberts's only film role was a cameo in which Altman satire of Hollywood?
The Player
The Player saves its last joke for her: a bleak drama pitched with no stars and no happy ending reaches the screen with Roberts in the lead, rescued at the last second.
Q 16Who co-starred with Roberts in the John Grisham thriller The Pelican Brief (1993)?
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington plays the newspaper reporter her law student turns to when her theory about the murders of two Supreme Court justices proves right enough to get her hunted.
Q 17What is the profession of Roberts's character in My Best Friend's Wedding?
Food critic
Food critic is her job in the opening scene, where a frantic kitchen sweats over her plate and the chef barking the orders is Chicago's Charlie Trotter, playing himself.
Q 18Roberts played a Justice Department attorney opposite which actor in Conspiracy Theory (1997)?
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson plays a New York cabbie who once saved her from a mugging and now pesters her with conspiracy theories, which she humours until one of them turns out to be right.
Q 19Which Sesame Street character tried to scare Roberts in a sketch?
Elmo
Elmo sets out to frighten her so the two of them can show young viewers what being afraid looks like, and the show still posts the sketch online as Elmo Scares Julia Roberts.
Q 20Who played the terminally ill mother opposite Roberts in Stepmom (1998)?
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon plays the ex-wife who cannot stand her children's stepmother-to-be, until bad news from her doctor shows her she must help the younger woman take her place.
Benjamin Bratt played the show's Detective Rey Curtis, and she thanked him by name from the Oscar stage in March 2001, only for the couple to part within months.
Q 24With Erin Brockovich, Roberts became the first actress paid what fee for a single film?
$20 million
$20 million was the largest salary yet paid to a screen actress, and that December the Hollywood Reporter put her on its women's power list, which rarely named performers, because her name alone could get a film financed.
Q 25In Erin Brockovich (2000), Roberts's legal clerk builds a pollution case against which company?
PG&E
PG&E, short for Pacific Gas and Electric, had polluted a small town's groundwater, and the case Brockovich pieced together from the files cost the utility a $333 million settlement.
Q 26Which star plays Roberts's hapless boyfriend, sent to fetch an antique pistol, in the 2001 comedy The Mexican?
Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt and Roberts share top billing but are kept apart for most of the film, because she is kidnapped on her way to Las Vegas while he is off bungling the errand.
Q 27In America's Sweethearts, Roberts plays the sister and assistant of a star played by whom?
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Gwen, a vain film star who uses her sister as a go-between with the co-star she has dumped, never noticing that the sister is in love with him.
Q 28In Ocean's Eleven, Roberts plays Danny's ex-wife Tess, who has taken up with which man?
The casino owner he robs
The casino owner he robs is her new man, which is why Rusty, once he finds out, begs Danny to tell him the heist is not about her, and of course it is.
Q 29In which film does Roberts's 1950s Wellesley teacher urge her students to want more than marriage?
Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile sends her to Wellesley in 1953, where the students can already identify every painting in her first lecture, so she hits back with a blast of modern art.
Q 30Roberts got her Closer role when Cate Blanchett withdrew for what reason?
A pregnancy
A pregnancy made Blanchett bow out in September 2003 before filming began, and within a week Roberts was in talks to play Anna, the American photographer.